| A | B |
|---|
| Ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming |
| Aplomb | poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity |
| Bombastic | pompous, or overblown in language; full of high sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas |
| Callow | without experience; immature, not fully developed; lack of sophistication and poise; without feathers |
| Drivel | saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish; aimless talk; to waste or fritter away foolishly |
| Epitome | a summary, condensed account, an instance that represnts a larger reality |
| Exhort | to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
| Ex Officio | by virture of holding a certain office |
| Infringe | to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
| Ingratiate | to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others |
| Interloper | one who moves in where he/she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder |
| Intrinsic | belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part |
| Inveigh | to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
| Lassitude | weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
| Millennium | a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy |
| Occult | mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means |
| Permeate | to spread though, penetrate, soak through |
| Precipitate | to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height |
| Stringent | strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste |
| Surmise | to think or believe without certain supporitng evidence to conjecture or guess, idea that lacks definate proof |
